AllenLowe

I shower with my LPs.

I'm just sorry he's given up ocean exploration.

the great thing is that the waiters didn't really care if we ordered anything - I may even have been under age at one point - would get a glass of water and sit there. those were the days - I was in piano heaven. In the space of a month or two I got to see Barry, Al Haig, Tommy Flanagan, Duke Jordan, Jaki Byard, and Sir Charles Thompson. Yow.

I have very fond memories of those days - I got to know Barry from hanging out at a weird bar he was working near 52nd street (with Wilbur Little, I think it was; but it was a famous place, can't remember the name; Barry said it was the only gig he got unemployment for afterwards) then at Bradley's when he was the Sunday pianist; as a matter of face, I wrote the first article Downbeat ever printed about him. just remembered - the bar was Jimmy's, I think - musta been '75 or so -

here's the note - no date: T

somewhere I have a note from Barry thanking me - and it might have a date - coulda been '79.

well, years ago here I told a story about her that I should not have - but let us say she has some interesting associations (courtesy of Curley Russell).

I was actually at Barry's very first Symphony Space concert when, IIRC, they had Chris on stage.

well, than, parts of the car probably hit him.

her two great loves: Jabbo Smith and Monk.

it's possible that he had a stroke that LED to a car accident. That's how Bobby Buster died, I was told. as for car accidents, it's bad news back to Bessie Smith and Chu Berry (I think) (though Bessie died because John Hammond had forgotten to pay her health insurance premium, so they wouldn't admit her into the hospital) Also Milton Brown. And Curley Russell told me no one was surprised at the Clifford Brown thing, as the wife who was driving (I think it must have been Richie Powell's) was a terrible driver. There's also Eddie Costa and Willie Dennis, though one or both may have been hit by cars. Same with Percy France, apparently killed by a car while crossing somewhere in NYC.

to get back to the original thread - clearly Cecil, who got a lot of rejection from the older guys, was trying hard to get them to listen - Jackie McLean told me once that his biggest regret was turning away Cecil, who knocked on his door one night because he wanted to discuss making a recording together - Jackie wasn't well, but he always though it was a mistake: "Bird always told me, listen to everyone."

I don't know about jazz, but as far as I'm concerned I'm the coolest guy there is. As a matter of fact, I can do anything.

he plays very nicely on the Shepp -

hey Jeff - those VJMs are incredible. And the sound on some of those is master quality (apparently they were able to get British Columbia or EMI or whatever it was to give them pristine test pressings of stuff. The Johnny Dunn, among others, is frighteningly clean. I've been buying these up from Ebay).

did Farmer have a daughter? I think I met her once when I was selling encyclopedias. She showed me the barn door.

Joe - you are absolutely right about Cyrkle opening for the Beatles.

"Remember the good old days, when treating your kids like worthless dirt came with no costs whatsoever?" that's not exactly my point......but those WERE good days. Ask Jeffrey Dahmer.

there's also a Jackie McLean version of Being Green, IIRC. John Costa, by the way, was a GREAT pianist. When Wynton was on Mr. Rogers he mouthed "who is this guy?" during one of Costa's solos. and strangely enough, though there was a real stylistic resemblance (he did a very similar kind of block chording), he was not related to Eddie Costa.

just an aside - those "Ahhhs" are minstrel things - same thing Emmett Miller used to do; you can hear them on some Al Bernard records, and even on one version of Marion Harris singing "After You've Gone."

actually, I was confusing Wilson with Simon. Sorry, but I always liked Cyrkle.

Wilson also produced the rock group Cyrkle.

many years ago when I lived in New Haven there was a yearly city jazz series that hired nothing but white bands for years - so I filed a Civil RIghts complaint with the city which, miraculously, went to a hearing - Leo was a co-respondent. We didn't really win, but after that year they started to integrate the fest. Wasn't great, but everybody was tired of the Jimmy Dorsey/Tommy Dorsey/Glenn Miller/ we-are-all-dead festival.

1) from what I remember, Mingus got him through another member of the band who recommended him - though Bob had sat in with him at some point - 2) You played with him in '75? Eureka was where he was raised (also the Bridges family, IIRC - Beau and Jeff and Lloyd) -

when I think of stuff like this I very quietly whisper (because I hope Berigan and Weizen aren't listening) that this is one instance in which the Repubs are right about certain tenets of the Liberal faith.